The clients who choose to share information with me have reported really good performance in the futures spreads in 2011, especially during the first six months of the year. I just received a New Years Greeting from a client who started working with me in March of 2011 and is a former S&P 500 pit trader from the floor of the CME: "Hey pete Hapy New Year. Your course changed my trading completely. It gave me my confidence back. I have been doing outstanding in the grains and energies." Anybody I interview and clear in advance as a serious prospect and not a complete trolling douchebag is welcome to independently contact him and ask him questions.
I trade prop strategies. First 7 figure year since 2008. 80% of my profits were made in the last 4 months of the year.
mostly sector commodity and index ETF's. my biggest trades of the year were on silver (slv). i scored nearly 20% in 2 days on a silver short in September followed by a long and subsequent 15% squeeze. my strategy does well in high intraday volatility as we had from sept to dec. i traded most of the short term lows in the fall, interestingly tho i am usually a bear, i did not trade much on the short side and no trade exceeded 2 days holding period. besides a few trades, i did not have any other crazy outsized profit days, but maintained a 90% up days for 4 months. the long at oct low was also one of the best trades of the year. i don't do well in low vix slow trending markets. 2009 was my worst year ever and i've really been in a 2 year daytrading slump before 2nd half of '11.
I knew people that basically put all into silver, and even if NIA is right that Silver will be the best investment of the next decade, I know they didn't see the highs in at 47, 41, 32, or 27, so hats off to you for hitting those. Probably those gold crashes to the tune of $300 helped you along, too.